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SUMMER RENOVATION
New look in dorms
There's a new look in the lobbies of Marks Tower, Trojan Hall, EVK-Harris and Birnkrant
dormitories.
A renovation plan for the dormitories which was begun nearly five years ago was approved by Dr. Norman Topping, USC president, last spring and results have finally become visible after a summer of tearing down and building up.
Along with Dr. Toppings’s approval which coincided with his veto of the women’s visitation proposal, he made an appropriation of $125,000 for the remodeling project.
Dr. Topping, two student committees, ASSC President Bill Mauk, and a representative from the office of Dean of Students Paul Bloland made the decision that remodeling efforts would be concentrated on the four dormitories.
Richard Dorman, an alumnus and designer of the married students housing, was then appointed architect for the project.
The lounges in the two men’s residence halls are now carpeted in a brownish:orange color, highlighted by black furniture and heavy wooden coffee tables.
The women’s dorms have taken on new color with furniture styles the same in each lounge, although the colors are different. Chairs and sofas in the men’s dorms are of a leather-like material, while the ones in the wompn’s dormitories have a velvetine covering.
Also, in the main lounges of each of the four dormitories, wooden dividers have been set up. These dividers make the areas seem smaller and more private.
In each of the lounges, more rooms have been partitioned off and decorated so students will have more private areas to study and visit in.
Two new small dining areas have also been made available in the women’s complex dining area. These were made possible by the addition of two walls in the dining area.
Also in the main dormitory cafeteria, located in Birnkrant Hall, bookcases have been added for the benefit of the students. In previous years students could choose between taking their books with them through the lines or leaving them on a table at the back of the room.
EASY LIVING—Residents of the EVK-Harris dormitory time for the school year. Lobbies were also remodeled in enjoy lounging in their remodeled lobby, just finished in the Birnkrant, Marks Hall and Marks Tower dormitories.
REGENTS WILL ALLOW CLEAVER ONE TALK
Compiled from newswires
The Board of Regents of the University of California has rejected a demand by Gov. Ronald Reagan that they ban Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver from lecturing at Berkeley and voted to permit him to appear one time in a classroom.
The regents turned down Reagan’s emotional plea that the people of California were as aroused as at any time in his memory at the prospect of Cleaver instructing at a university supported by their taxes.
Reagan said bringing in Cleaver “made as much sense as it would have to invite the late Tommy Manville as a marriage counsellor.” Reagan warned that approval of Cleaver’s appearance could lead to a legislative investigation of the university “from top to bottom”
The regents voted 10 to 8 for a motion proposed by President Charles Hitch, head of the nine universities in the system, which in effect would permit Cleaver to make one appearance.
It voted down, 9 to 9, a motion backed by Reagan which stated that Cleaver not be permitted to participate, instruct or teach any course on a campus of the University of California.
At the conclusion of the vote on the Cleaver matter, the regents passed—with two abstentions—a censure motion against the Board of Educational Development, the faculty group responsible for structuring the experimental course.
Reagan said he was not fearful of exposing the young people of California to radical persons or ideas, but that the people of California had made it obvious that they did not want Cleaver on a campus.
“This is a drive toward total chaos,” he said. “I ask you to turn back now before it is too late.”
Robely Williams, chairman of the Academic Council at Berkeley, warned that there would be a “90 per cent drop” in the enthusiasm of the faculty if the regents overrode their traditional right to determine the courses taught at a university.
Williams said he would resign as chairman of the Biology Department at Berkeley if the proposal to ban Cleaver was passed.
Robert Caswell, first Tommy Trojan, dies
Robert P. Caswell, 48, the first mounted Tommy Trojan, died Thursday after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Saturday in Maywood.
Caswell rode his white horse. Rocky at USC football games in the Coliseum until two years ago. He first appeared as Tommy Trojan in 1954.
Caswell, an alumnus of the university (architecture, 1942), was fond of describing the ribbing he took about a horse he owned then—Major Ass Tired.
“My horse. Major, and I were the butt of many a joke during my student
VOL. LX
Uni versitv of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1968
NO. 6
Former BSU head daims Cleaver belongs at UC
days,” he said ten years ago, “but now it looks like Rocky and I will have the last, and best, laugh.”
He caused a furor when he first appeared at a game in 1954. The tradition caught on soon after.
Caswell was a prominent businessman in Compton and an outstanding equestrian. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Posse and the Long Beach Mounted Patrol.
He lived in La Habra. Survivors include his widow, Helen; father, Cy Clyde of Placerville; and sister, Marguerite Burroughs of Anaheim.
By BILL DICKE City editor Efforts to oust Eldridge Cleaver as a lecturer at the University of California are clearly an oppression of diverse opinion, Rich Steward, former chairman of the Black Student Union, said Friday.
Steward was chairman of the BSU when Cleaver spoke here on campus over the summer. He refused to officially comment on whether the BSU plans to invite Cleaver to speak here this semester, but said, “There is a possibility.”
He said in an interview, “This shows how deeply seated white racism is. I am especially disappointed because higher education has a responsibility to present diverse ideas so that students can evaluate them.” Steward, a graduate in special education, said he thought the move to remove Cleaver was a disservice to the university system as a whole.
He said he thought a public clamor was raised over only this particular man. “When there was a clamor about academic freedom, there was no Cleaver about,” he said.
He called Cleaver’s class well constructed. “If you want to speak effectively to racism and the degeneracy of the country, you’ve got to have somebody who have been a victim of this,” he said.
“If you want to learn how to live in a white affluent society, you should
talk to Rockefeller or President Topping.”
Steward said that when Cleaver spoke at USC there seemed to be an atmosphere of anxiety, but that the speech came off without any incidents.
He said the 100 Black Panthers who provided security for Cleaver were
very helpful and ushered individuals to their seats.
Cleaver’s speech was described by Steward as an analysis of the problems of colonization of minority groups perpetuated and enforced by the policy-makers of the country.
Steward was emcee at the program at which Dr. William Williams, director
of the Center for Social Action, and Art Kunkin, editor of the Los Angeles Free Press, also spoke.
Steward said that reports that the Students for a Democratic Society were moving toward a merger with the BSU were unfounded to the best of his knowledge.
APX holds first happening on Row
By KEITH MacBARRON
The Row broke from its usual routine last Friday. Alpha Rho Chi presented the first of what it hopes will be a series of happenings. It began with paint, lots of paint.
Getting the most coverage were the sidewalk, the driveway, and a series of cardboard fences erected for the purpose. Tony Marnell, the fraternity’s social chairman, said, “We plan to paint the sidewalks, the posters and whatever else gets in the way.” From the looks of things, a few people got in the way. *
The results of the paint were a multitude of beautiful paints and uninhibited literary reactions. Among the signs were, “Pam has soul and that ain’t all,” “Love is great, if you get the good stuff,” “WTesson oil is alive and well,” “I’m going back to N.Y.C.,” and “Tiny Tim for first lady.” The painting was accompained by the live rock-and-roll of a band called “The Electric Chair.” The sound of the amplified music drew a crowd of about a hundred. As darkness set in, a number of short films were shown on a screen mounted on the top of the fraternity house. The majority of the films were old newsreels and war films.
Marnell expressed the hope that in the future the happenings would include such movies as “A Hard Days Night,” “Help,” and “Magical Mystery Tour.” He also expressed the hope that in the future other musical groups would donate their talents and time.
MGM FILMS FLICK IN CAMPUS AREA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will begin production of a new movie, "Zabriski Point," today in an area directly adjacent to campus.
The film will be directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, of "Blow-up" fame, and produced by Carlo Ponti.
Filming will take place in several houses bought by M.G.M. on West 36th St. Dean Tavoularis, art director, and George Nelson, set director, said the location was a "beautiful area."
Walter M. Schirra
enters capsule.
Astronaut Schirra, USC alumnus, will retire after Apollo 7 flight
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, a former USC student who has announced he will retire as a spaceman after the Apollo 7 flight, said he will remain in the space program after retirement.
“I intend to remain in the space program until we effect the job I we set out to do—that is, to land men on the moon and return them,” he said.
Schirra will be the world’s most experienced astronaut if he completes the 11-day Apollo flight scheduled for Oct. 11.
Other astronauts, particularly spaceman James Lovell have turned in more hours in space. But Schirra will become the first spaceman with experience flying all three models of U.S. manned spaceships. The 10.8 days he plans to spend in orbit during Apollo 7, added to the 35 hours, 4 minutes he picked up on Mercury and Gemini flights, would put him close to Lovell’s time in space.
“I don’t think I’d have the steam left to do another one,” he told newsmen at the Houston Space Center.
Schirra graduated from USC’s aviation and missile safety division of University College in 1957 while he was stationed at Miramar Naval Ait Station in San Diego. He completed his first space trip, a six-orbital flight, in 1962.
The Apollo flight plan calls for Schirra and fellow astronauts Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele to orbit the earth for the 11 days and test the Apollo craft.
Schirra said the crew was ready for the first manned Apollo mission, which will open what figures to be a
neck-and-neck race with Russia to the moon.
Reports from Houston indicated general speculation that the U.S. is considering a three-man Apollo flight around the moon in December.
The main objective of a manned moon landing is not considered possible until late 1969.
Schirra made his retirement statement amid further speculation that the successful orbiting of the moon by Russia’s unmanned Zond 5 spacecraft meant the Russians might be ready to send men around the moon immediately.
Schirra said there are some minor problems in Apollo 7, “which we do not accept as being fiight-readv as yet.”
They are not insurmountable, he said, but they have to be checked out before the mission.
The initial manned Apollo spaceflight was to have been in February’, 1967, but American plans for space came to a halt with the deaths of Apollo I astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee in a fire during a launch pad test at Cape Kennedy.
The new spacecraft is much safer, but “the moments of levity have not been often,” Schirra said.
While at USC, Schirra studies aeronautical engineering, aviation physiology, aircraft accident prevention and investigation and educational courses.
He also rode the human centrifuge to experience the high gravitational forces that are encountered in space flight.
Photo by NASA

SUMMER RENOVATION
New look in dorms
There's a new look in the lobbies of Marks Tower, Trojan Hall, EVK-Harris and Birnkrant
dormitories.
A renovation plan for the dormitories which was begun nearly five years ago was approved by Dr. Norman Topping, USC president, last spring and results have finally become visible after a summer of tearing down and building up.
Along with Dr. Toppings’s approval which coincided with his veto of the women’s visitation proposal, he made an appropriation of $125,000 for the remodeling project.
Dr. Topping, two student committees, ASSC President Bill Mauk, and a representative from the office of Dean of Students Paul Bloland made the decision that remodeling efforts would be concentrated on the four dormitories.
Richard Dorman, an alumnus and designer of the married students housing, was then appointed architect for the project.
The lounges in the two men’s residence halls are now carpeted in a brownish:orange color, highlighted by black furniture and heavy wooden coffee tables.
The women’s dorms have taken on new color with furniture styles the same in each lounge, although the colors are different. Chairs and sofas in the men’s dorms are of a leather-like material, while the ones in the wompn’s dormitories have a velvetine covering.
Also, in the main lounges of each of the four dormitories, wooden dividers have been set up. These dividers make the areas seem smaller and more private.
In each of the lounges, more rooms have been partitioned off and decorated so students will have more private areas to study and visit in.
Two new small dining areas have also been made available in the women’s complex dining area. These were made possible by the addition of two walls in the dining area.
Also in the main dormitory cafeteria, located in Birnkrant Hall, bookcases have been added for the benefit of the students. In previous years students could choose between taking their books with them through the lines or leaving them on a table at the back of the room.
EASY LIVING—Residents of the EVK-Harris dormitory time for the school year. Lobbies were also remodeled in enjoy lounging in their remodeled lobby, just finished in the Birnkrant, Marks Hall and Marks Tower dormitories.
REGENTS WILL ALLOW CLEAVER ONE TALK
Compiled from newswires
The Board of Regents of the University of California has rejected a demand by Gov. Ronald Reagan that they ban Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver from lecturing at Berkeley and voted to permit him to appear one time in a classroom.
The regents turned down Reagan’s emotional plea that the people of California were as aroused as at any time in his memory at the prospect of Cleaver instructing at a university supported by their taxes.
Reagan said bringing in Cleaver “made as much sense as it would have to invite the late Tommy Manville as a marriage counsellor.” Reagan warned that approval of Cleaver’s appearance could lead to a legislative investigation of the university “from top to bottom”
The regents voted 10 to 8 for a motion proposed by President Charles Hitch, head of the nine universities in the system, which in effect would permit Cleaver to make one appearance.
It voted down, 9 to 9, a motion backed by Reagan which stated that Cleaver not be permitted to participate, instruct or teach any course on a campus of the University of California.
At the conclusion of the vote on the Cleaver matter, the regents passed—with two abstentions—a censure motion against the Board of Educational Development, the faculty group responsible for structuring the experimental course.
Reagan said he was not fearful of exposing the young people of California to radical persons or ideas, but that the people of California had made it obvious that they did not want Cleaver on a campus.
“This is a drive toward total chaos,” he said. “I ask you to turn back now before it is too late.”
Robely Williams, chairman of the Academic Council at Berkeley, warned that there would be a “90 per cent drop” in the enthusiasm of the faculty if the regents overrode their traditional right to determine the courses taught at a university.
Williams said he would resign as chairman of the Biology Department at Berkeley if the proposal to ban Cleaver was passed.
Robert Caswell, first Tommy Trojan, dies
Robert P. Caswell, 48, the first mounted Tommy Trojan, died Thursday after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Saturday in Maywood.
Caswell rode his white horse. Rocky at USC football games in the Coliseum until two years ago. He first appeared as Tommy Trojan in 1954.
Caswell, an alumnus of the university (architecture, 1942), was fond of describing the ribbing he took about a horse he owned then—Major Ass Tired.
“My horse. Major, and I were the butt of many a joke during my student
VOL. LX
Uni versitv of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1968
NO. 6
Former BSU head daims Cleaver belongs at UC
days,” he said ten years ago, “but now it looks like Rocky and I will have the last, and best, laugh.”
He caused a furor when he first appeared at a game in 1954. The tradition caught on soon after.
Caswell was a prominent businessman in Compton and an outstanding equestrian. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Posse and the Long Beach Mounted Patrol.
He lived in La Habra. Survivors include his widow, Helen; father, Cy Clyde of Placerville; and sister, Marguerite Burroughs of Anaheim.
By BILL DICKE City editor Efforts to oust Eldridge Cleaver as a lecturer at the University of California are clearly an oppression of diverse opinion, Rich Steward, former chairman of the Black Student Union, said Friday.
Steward was chairman of the BSU when Cleaver spoke here on campus over the summer. He refused to officially comment on whether the BSU plans to invite Cleaver to speak here this semester, but said, “There is a possibility.”
He said in an interview, “This shows how deeply seated white racism is. I am especially disappointed because higher education has a responsibility to present diverse ideas so that students can evaluate them.” Steward, a graduate in special education, said he thought the move to remove Cleaver was a disservice to the university system as a whole.
He said he thought a public clamor was raised over only this particular man. “When there was a clamor about academic freedom, there was no Cleaver about,” he said.
He called Cleaver’s class well constructed. “If you want to speak effectively to racism and the degeneracy of the country, you’ve got to have somebody who have been a victim of this,” he said.
“If you want to learn how to live in a white affluent society, you should
talk to Rockefeller or President Topping.”
Steward said that when Cleaver spoke at USC there seemed to be an atmosphere of anxiety, but that the speech came off without any incidents.
He said the 100 Black Panthers who provided security for Cleaver were
very helpful and ushered individuals to their seats.
Cleaver’s speech was described by Steward as an analysis of the problems of colonization of minority groups perpetuated and enforced by the policy-makers of the country.
Steward was emcee at the program at which Dr. William Williams, director
of the Center for Social Action, and Art Kunkin, editor of the Los Angeles Free Press, also spoke.
Steward said that reports that the Students for a Democratic Society were moving toward a merger with the BSU were unfounded to the best of his knowledge.
APX holds first happening on Row
By KEITH MacBARRON
The Row broke from its usual routine last Friday. Alpha Rho Chi presented the first of what it hopes will be a series of happenings. It began with paint, lots of paint.
Getting the most coverage were the sidewalk, the driveway, and a series of cardboard fences erected for the purpose. Tony Marnell, the fraternity’s social chairman, said, “We plan to paint the sidewalks, the posters and whatever else gets in the way.” From the looks of things, a few people got in the way. *
The results of the paint were a multitude of beautiful paints and uninhibited literary reactions. Among the signs were, “Pam has soul and that ain’t all,” “Love is great, if you get the good stuff,” “WTesson oil is alive and well,” “I’m going back to N.Y.C.,” and “Tiny Tim for first lady.” The painting was accompained by the live rock-and-roll of a band called “The Electric Chair.” The sound of the amplified music drew a crowd of about a hundred. As darkness set in, a number of short films were shown on a screen mounted on the top of the fraternity house. The majority of the films were old newsreels and war films.
Marnell expressed the hope that in the future the happenings would include such movies as “A Hard Days Night,” “Help,” and “Magical Mystery Tour.” He also expressed the hope that in the future other musical groups would donate their talents and time.
MGM FILMS FLICK IN CAMPUS AREA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will begin production of a new movie, "Zabriski Point," today in an area directly adjacent to campus.
The film will be directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, of "Blow-up" fame, and produced by Carlo Ponti.
Filming will take place in several houses bought by M.G.M. on West 36th St. Dean Tavoularis, art director, and George Nelson, set director, said the location was a "beautiful area."
Walter M. Schirra
enters capsule.
Astronaut Schirra, USC alumnus, will retire after Apollo 7 flight
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, a former USC student who has announced he will retire as a spaceman after the Apollo 7 flight, said he will remain in the space program after retirement.
“I intend to remain in the space program until we effect the job I we set out to do—that is, to land men on the moon and return them,” he said.
Schirra will be the world’s most experienced astronaut if he completes the 11-day Apollo flight scheduled for Oct. 11.
Other astronauts, particularly spaceman James Lovell have turned in more hours in space. But Schirra will become the first spaceman with experience flying all three models of U.S. manned spaceships. The 10.8 days he plans to spend in orbit during Apollo 7, added to the 35 hours, 4 minutes he picked up on Mercury and Gemini flights, would put him close to Lovell’s time in space.
“I don’t think I’d have the steam left to do another one,” he told newsmen at the Houston Space Center.
Schirra graduated from USC’s aviation and missile safety division of University College in 1957 while he was stationed at Miramar Naval Ait Station in San Diego. He completed his first space trip, a six-orbital flight, in 1962.
The Apollo flight plan calls for Schirra and fellow astronauts Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele to orbit the earth for the 11 days and test the Apollo craft.
Schirra said the crew was ready for the first manned Apollo mission, which will open what figures to be a
neck-and-neck race with Russia to the moon.
Reports from Houston indicated general speculation that the U.S. is considering a three-man Apollo flight around the moon in December.
The main objective of a manned moon landing is not considered possible until late 1969.
Schirra made his retirement statement amid further speculation that the successful orbiting of the moon by Russia’s unmanned Zond 5 spacecraft meant the Russians might be ready to send men around the moon immediately.
Schirra said there are some minor problems in Apollo 7, “which we do not accept as being fiight-readv as yet.”
They are not insurmountable, he said, but they have to be checked out before the mission.
The initial manned Apollo spaceflight was to have been in February’, 1967, but American plans for space came to a halt with the deaths of Apollo I astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee in a fire during a launch pad test at Cape Kennedy.
The new spacecraft is much safer, but “the moments of levity have not been often,” Schirra said.
While at USC, Schirra studies aeronautical engineering, aviation physiology, aircraft accident prevention and investigation and educational courses.
He also rode the human centrifuge to experience the high gravitational forces that are encountered in space flight.
Photo by NASA